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As of December 2019, Chicago had 125 buildings at least 500 feet (152 m) tall. [5] Chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper. [6] [7] The Home Insurance Building, completed in 1885, is regarded as the world's first skyscraper. This building used the steel-frame method, innovated in Chicago. It was originally built with 10 stories, an enormous ...
Park Tower is a skyscraper located at 800 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Completed in 2000 and standing at 844 feet (257 m) tall with 70 floors — 67 floors for practical use, it is the twelfth-tallest building in Chicago, the 43rd-tallest building in the United States , and the 83rd-tallest in the world by architectural detail.
110 North Wacker, also known as the Bank of America Tower, [1] is a 57-floor skyscraper in Chicago located at 110 North Wacker Drive. [2] It was developed by the Howard Hughes Corporation and Riverside Investment & Development. [3] It was designed by Goettsch Partners [1] with construction by Clark Construction. [4]
311 South Wacker is surrounded to the northwest by a grassy area, commonly used as a lounging and public lunch area during warm months, which is the largest area of green space in the Chicago Loop. This park is used to host local farmer markets, musical events, and various art and cultural festivals. To the southwest is a parking lot. [7]
The Franklin Center is a 60-story supertall skyscraper in the Loop neighborhood of downtown Chicago.Completed in 1989 as the AT&T Corporate Center to consolidate the central region headquarters of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), [2] it stands at a height of 1,007 ft (307 m) and contains 1.7 million sq ft (160,000 m 2) of floor space. [3]
Two Prudential Plaza is a 64-story skyscraper located in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois.At 995 feet (303 m) tall, it is the seventh-tallest building in Chicago as of 2022 and the 28th-tallest in the U.S., being only five feet from 1,000 feet, making it the closest of any building under 1,000. [1]
Lake Point Tower from St. Regis Chicago between Navy Pier and Lake Shore Drive, 2022. The architects for Lake Point Tower were John Heinrich and George Schipporeit, working under the firm name of Schipporeit and Heinrich; the two were students of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the best known architects of the Bauhaus movement and International Style school, who taught at the Illinois ...
Designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, the Metropolitan Tower was named the Straus Building when completed in 1924.Though it was the first building in Chicago with 30 or more floors, it was never officially designated Chicago's tallest building since the Chicago Temple Building, also completed in 1924, is taller by 92 feet (28 m) but has seven fewer floors. [5]